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HIIT or miss?

High-intensity interval training, or HIIT, has grown massively in popularity over recent years. This is no surprise. The basic premise is that you work harder for short periods of time and reap the benefits of a much longer workout. Great if you are short of time. And these days, who isn’t right? However new research…

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I think i’m falling for you!

One in three people over 65 and half of people over 80 falls at least once a year. Falling costs the NHS more than £2 billion a year (Yang Tian et al., 2013). Now that is a lot of money but let’s not forget the physical and emotional stress on the individual. A fall can leave an older…

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I got your back!

It’s BackCare Awareness week. Exciting I know! Seriously though back pain is a real….well….pain. And it starts in school. New research has shown that 1 in 4 secondary school children suffer from back pain regularly or every day (BackCare, 2015). One of the main problems was found to be having to lug around an overloaded…

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Finding the starting line

When you start an exercise programme, it’s really important to know what level of fitness you are starting from.  It helps to develop and plan what you are going to do. It provides a baseline which can be evaluated and reviewed. Also if you don’t know where you started, how do you know how far…

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